S@mwich wrote:When I started reading sourcery, for the first half of the book I misread conina as corina and thought it was alluding to to crowns, and thought that she would crown the new archcancellor at the end

Yes that is one of the great joys of reading Pterry... guessing where it's all going to end up and usually getting it wrong! Even if you know where he's going you still can't usually predict how he's going to get there. Though you can predict it will often be due to a one in a million chance...